Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids

Moon-Ho Jo received his Ph.D. in Materials Science at University of Cambridge in 2001, with a dissertation on electron-spin tunneling in half-metallic manganites. He joined the faculty of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at POSTECH in 2004, after a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University Physics/Chemistry, where he investigated low-temperature electron transport through single-molecule magnets. Earlier in his faculty career, he had worked on epitaxial growth of Si:Ge alloy semiconductor nanowires and their development into group IV nanowire photonics. Recently, he has been exploring the state-of-the-art epitaxial growth of novel van der Waals heterostructures, their developments into quantum electronics and quantum light emitter. He set out the IBS vdWQS Center (www.ibs.re.kr/vdwqs) in 2022. He is currently an Editorial Advisory Board member of Nano Letters.